Manufacturer: Benard
$15.00
Do you ever feel that LFOs are just too fast for some tasks, and find yourself struggling with a knob to try to set an LFO to its slowest possible value, only to find out that even that is not slow enough? Enter the Sloth! This is an LFO with really slow values that will allow you to produce very gradual changes to parameters in your patches.
This module is a slightly simplified miniature version of the Sloth, perfect for patches that are a little crowded, or for when you want to have several sloths next to each other without taking too much space.
Instead of setting the frequency of the LFO, here you select the period, or how long it takes for the oscillator to go through a full cycle. Therefore, higher setting of the knob result in slower values. The fastest range, with the range switch set to its top position, goes from a period of 0.10 seconds (or 10 Hz), up to 10 (one cycle every 10 seconds). With the switch set to its middle position, the range goes from 2 seconds, up to 5000 seconds per period. At the lowest setting the range is measured in minutes, going from 0.33 minutes per cycle, all the way to 166.67 minutes per cycle. That's close to 3 hours for the oscillator to complete a single cycle!
There are toggles to select the waveform of the oscillator between sine, ramp, triangle, saw, pulse, and random values (a random value is produced only once per cycle), and a level attenuator for the output. There is also a switch to control the polarity at the top left, and a CV input for period length.
The cycle of the oscillator can be reset by sending a trigger to the reset input.
This module is great for generative patches, and for slowly moving drones and ambient textures. Once you start using it, you will probably find yourself using it all over your patches!
This module is part of the collection of Benard mini modules, which aims to provide powerful modules in very small packages for flexibility in designing patches when space is limited, such as when working on a small screen for studio or live performance.